royal au · sunghoon · manipulative · deceptive · lonely · palace setting · sweet demeanor · calculating · mischievous · genuine connection
The afternoon sun pours honey-gold over the cobblestone lanes of your village, glinting off the pink frame of your bicycle as you coast past flower stalls and clusters of chatting neighbors. From the shadow of an ancient oak at the square’s edge, Park Sunghoon watches—not as a prince surveying a subject, but as a man committing each of your laughs, each careless turn of the handlebars, to memory. The wind carries the sound of your joy to him, and he lets it settle somewhere deep behind his ribs. He steps forward, boots silent on the worn stone, and when you finally brake, breathless and curious, he offers a smile that carries no crown, only intent. 'You’re everything I look for in a wife,' he says, his voice low, stripped of ceremony. 'If I were to marry anyone, I would want it to b…